River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-31
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

jackson Marion was hanged at Bea-
trice, Nebraska, on the 25th, for the murder
of John Cameron. Marion murdered John
Cameron m April, 1872. Tie men left Grass
hopper Falls, Kan, with a team of horses
and q wagon TO work on the st. Joe a Den
yer railroad grade On May 3, Marion ar
rived alone at Beatrice, with the team and
wagon. Nothing more was heard of Gamer
on until March, lc13. when the remains of
man with a bullet hole in the forehead,
which were afterward identified as those of
Cameron. were found on the banks of the
Blue river Ten years more elapsed before
the suspected criminal was arrested. The
case has been IN the courts for five years,
and three times was the prisoner sentenced
10 hang.
Thos ii. Harding was hanged at
Dillon, Mont. on the 18th. for the murder Of
Geo. Ferguson the Glendale stage-driver,
May ., 1876. tie protested his innocence TO
the end. he was sentenced TO be hanged
Dec. y. 1856. but had been several times res
pited His last statement was: Il amt
afraid 10 die, but / hate To die such death
on account Of an old mother and relatives
in York State"
At Hillyard, Mo. on the 2Sth, a
broken rail on the Iron Mountain road
caused the ladies' coach amt the Pullman
badly damaging both cars. Mrs. Honey
cutt held child in her arms, and being
thrown forward the child was killed and
she was badly injured, as were other pas
sengtrs.
A our story building inside the
prison walls of the jackson,
Mich. penitentiary took fire from
spontaneous combustion Sunday forenoon
aud burned The prisoners were in their
cells and remained quiet, being in no dan
ger from the fire. A two story building
also took fire and was partly burned.
In the Peoples theater at St. Louis.
Sunday evening, an insubordinate gallery
boy gave a cry Of fire, and the audience
became panic stricken and in the mad rush
for the doors persons were knocked down
and trampled upon. The police and ushers
succeeded in stopping the panic before any
one was killed
The fremont Hotel in Wabash, Ind,
burned completely down Sunday morning.
There were number of narrow escapes by
the inmates, all egress from the second and
third stories being cut off except by ladders.
Loss, S30,Os0; insurance, Sl4,JUO.
At Sydney. y. 5. w, on the 2Srd
- men were entombed by an explosion in
the Bulls colliery. The accident occurred
in run a mile and half from the mouth
of a pit. Seven bodies have been recovered.
The tunnel was blocked by the debris caused
blythe explosion.
The Commissioner of Pensions in his
weekly report to the Secretary of the In
terror states that -, 49, applications are
now before his office for adjudication.
Claims are being filed at TIE rate of COO a
week. and the final adjudication number is
about 100
A boarding house near the famous
Colby mine at Bessemer, Mich, took fire
Tuesday night and sixteen of twenty
miners lodging there were burned to death.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Miller. the keepers of the
house barely escaped with their lives.
On the 2Sth. two freight trains on
the Canadian Pacific road, one bound east
and the other bound west, collided near
Franktown. Both trains were wrecked,
but no one was killed. The loss is SlOO,UO.
The Democrats of Chicago on We'd
nesday, renominated Carter II. Harrison,
for Mayor by reclamation, and he accepted.
The election contest promises To be as hot
as any Chicago has ever experienced.
c. NJ Thompson, late of Chardon,
Ohio, and more recently of Racine, Wis,
was arrested at MuskegOn, Mich, on the
charge of bIgamy. He had one wife with
him and three more in Ohio.
Il Is intimated that X. II. Wade. SUI
perintendent of the Wabash system, will
succeed Judge Cooley as receiver. He is
claimed TO be practical, efficient and sue
cessful railroad manager.
A discharged waiter of the Palmer
House, Chicago, Ill. shot and killed the
head waiter while the guests were at din
ner on Friday. and in the excitement the
murderer got away
j. H. Hagget, a wealthy miner of
San Francisco, Cal, took his family, consist
ing of three boys and one girl out rowing.
The boat capsized and all but one boy were
drowned.
At Palestine, Texas, on the 2lst, the
Democratic convention to nominate a
successor to Senator Reagan, on the 212
ballot unanimously nominated William ii.
Martin
At Galveston, Texas. on the 23rd, a
spot sale Of $4,000 worth of cotton was
made. for export This is the largest spot
sale ever made in Texas, if not IN the South
On Sunday. Hon. J. II. Treat, judge
Of the United States district court for the
southern district Of Illinois. died at his resi-
dence IN Springfield at the age of % years.